1980 also saw the release of PiL's first live album, Paris au Printemps – also the group's last album featuring Jah Wobble.

PiL's seventh studio album, 9 – so called as it was the band's ninth official album release, including the two live albums – appeared in early 1989 and featured the single " Disappointed ".

PiL's second album is generally regarded as their best, as well as one of the most influential albums of the post-punk era.

The majority of the drumming on the album was provided by Richard Dudanski, PiL's drummer from April to September 1979.

PiL's 1986 album release was simply entitled Album, Compact Disc, or Cassette, depending on the format.

In the liner notes of PiL's Plastic Box compilation ( 1999 ), John Lydon remarked that: " In some ways Album was almost like a solo album.

Bill Laswell, who produced PiL's previous album, was at one point supposed to produce Happy ?, but this idea fell through allegedly because Laswell wanted to replace the PiL line-up with his own session musicians ( as had been the case with Album ), a request John Lydon would not agree to.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

Wobble co-wrote and contributed bass and drums to PiL's second album Metal Box, which was released in 1979.

While the actual name of the album is The Power Station, the specific formats were adopted as part of the name ( similar to PiL's 1986 Album ), thus The Power Station 33 vinyl album, and The Power Station CD on compact disc.

Plastic Box comprised a mixture of previously released and previously unreleased material spanning PiL's entire career up to that point, although no material from Commercial Zone or PiL's two live albums was included ( in the compilation's liner notes, Lydon wrote that " this collection represents a comma not a full stop, I fully intend to carry on with PiL, and there will be more in the future.

Atkins was PiL's drummer from 1979 to 1980 and 1982 to 1985.

Lydon emerged after the break-up of the Sex Pistols with PiL's First Issue ( 1978 ).

They were also to be his last formal recording studio sessions.

If he felt out of ideas on what to do with the story, he would often take a break from the shoot that could last for days, while keeping the studio ready for when he felt inspired again.

Time topped the UK charts for two weeks and was the last ELO studio album to date to be certified platinum in the United Kingdom.

Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second and last studio album, released in October 1986 ( see 1986 in music ).

During this period, his visual style simplified ( owing in part to the constraints of the Hollywood studio system ) and his worldview became increasingly pessimistic, culminating in the cold, geometric style of his last American films, While the City Sleeps ( 1956 ) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 ).

This was the last of Whale's films to be produced under the Laemmle family ; the Laemmles lost control of the studio to J. Cheever Cowdin, head of the Standard Capital Corporation, and Charles R. Rogers, who was installed in Junior Laemmle's old job.

Also, it is the last major film studio still headquartered in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles.

Paramount is the last major film studio located in Hollywood proper.

Nonetheless Feline broke the Stranglers in Europe and reached No. 4 in the UK chart in January 1983 ( their last studio album to break the UK Top 10 ).

Heartattack and Vine, Waits's last studio album for Asylum, was released in 1980, featuring a developing sound that included both ballads (" Jersey Girl ") and rougher-edged rhythm and blues.

The last known print of London After Midnight was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967.

After talking with Elijah in the back room of his studio, David shakes his hand and discovers to his horror that Elijah had orchestrated many of the fatal disasters he had mentioned, causing hundreds of deaths, the last being David's train accident.

After Ono was injured in a car accident, Lennon arranged for a king-sized bed to be brought to the recording studio as he worked on The Beatles ' last recorded album, Abbey Road.

Recycler, released in 1990, was ZZ Top's last studio album under contract with Warner Records.

Columbia was the last studio still producing shorts, and the market for such films had all but dried up.

The trial was due to last 6 months but the BBC were forced to cease broadcasts with the Baird system in February 1937, due to a disastrous fire in the Baird studio.

A third studio was built at Diamond Head, and was used during the last four seasons.

Gene Tierney was initially cast in the role, but due to emotional problems dropped out at the last minute, and the studio flew Kelly to Los Angeles to audition in September 1952.

The band's tenth studio album, Heritage, is the last Opeth recording with Per Wiberg as the keyboardist as on April 6, 2011 it was announced that Wiberg would be leaving the band as part of a mutual decision.

After Outland ( 1991 ), another critical and commercial disappointment and his second and last studio album with IRS, Numan reactivated Numa Records, under which he would release his next two albums.

Their last studio album of the 1970s, Love Beach ( 1978 ), was dismissed even by the trio itself, who admitted it was delivered to fulfill a contractual obligation.

He continued to work up until his death in Fordingbridge, Hampshire in 1961, his last work being a studio mural in three parts, the left hand of which showed a Falstaffian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a hurdy gurdy while coming down a village street.

In 1993, the last president of the studio, Fred Seibert recalled his early production experiences with early LP releases of the studio's effects, and commissioned Sound Ideas to release a four-CD set entitled The Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library, featuring nearly all of the original H-B sound effects used from 1957 to 1990, a more vast collection compared to the early LP releases ( including the sounds H-B had borrowed from other studios ).

In 1983, the Police released their last studio album, Synchronicity, which spawned the hit singles " Every Breath You Take ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger ", " King of Pain " and " Synchronicity II ".

The night before we went into the studio Stewart broke his collarbone falling off a horse and that meant we lost our last chance of recovering some rapport just by jamming together.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant ( featuring the single " Love Is Strange "), issued in 1969.

On February 1, 1999, Barış Manço died of a sudden heart attack before the release of his just finished last work Mançoloji ( Mançology or Manchology ) ( 1999 ), a double album containing the new recordings of his hit songs along with an unfinished instrumental song " 40.

It was on Hessie's Shed that Finn, Hester and Seymour last shared a stage, on an episode filmed as part of Finn's promotion for his solo album Try Whistling This in 1998.

His last recorded album was Reality ( 2003 ), which was supported by the 2003 – 04 Reality Tour.

McLean said, " The last album ( Don McLean ) was a study in depression whereas the new one ( Playin ' Favorites ) is almost the quintessence of optimism, with a feeling of " Wow, I just woke up from a bad dream.

1990 saw the release of Smooth Noodle Maps, which would be Devo's last album for twenty years.

His last full-length album in over ten years.

A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell quit touring and released her 17th, and reportedly last, album of original songs in 2007.

The album contained the last two performances of Joe C. on " Devil Without a Cause " and " Early Mornin ' Stoned Pimp ," as well as Kid duetting with country star Gretchen Wilson on " Picture.

"' Forever Changes ' is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969 ... ' Forever Changes ' is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.

" When I did that album ," commented Arthur Lee, " I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words.

The album was re-released in an expanded single-CD version by Rhino in 2001, featuring alternate mixes, outtakes and the group's 1968 single, " Your Mind and We Belong Together "/" Laughing Stock ", the last tracks that featured the " Forever Changes " line-up of Johnny Echols, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart and Bryan MacLean ( Forssi and MacLean both died in 1998 ).

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

This was the last time Evans and Davis made a full album together ; despite the professional separation, however, Davis noted later that " my best friend is Gil Evans.

Norton produced their second full album, Doolittle, which was recorded in the last six weeks of 1988 and seen as a departure from the raw sound of Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa.

Moving Pictures was Rush's last album to feature an extended song, the eleven-minute " The Camera Eye ".

A triple CD live album and dual DVD, Rush in Rio, was released in late October 2003 featuring an entire concert performance recorded on the last night of their Vapor Trails Tour, November 23, 2002, at Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Even though the album went platinum, the song proved to be their last hit.

The album produced only one, and at this time the last, Billboard Hot 100 single, " Love Is a Rock " at # 66.

Their sometimes rocky relationship led to their last album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, being delayed several times due to artistic disagreements and as a result the duo broke up in 1970.

Poor reception of the album both by the public and reviewers led the band to take out a page-sized ad in the local music press declaring " Why Don't You All Get Fu ** ed " ( title of one of their songs ) and they played their last performance on 8 June in Kalgoorlie.